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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although claiming that it is "difficult to act in the morning, before dinner," Gielgud consented to entertain his audience with the "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh" soliloquy from "Hamlet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gielgud Soliloquizes Before English' 23b | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...employer is trying to avoid the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act by "encouraging" workers to put in time for which there is no remuneration, he is a fair target for civil or criminal legal action. But this is not the case in most of the $5,000,000,000 worth of suits now pending. Portal-to portal pay was something which had not occurred to either employer or employee. When the Mount Clemens Case opened a legal loophole for extracting wages above the amount agreed upon in good faith, labor, en masse, leaped to widen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Minimis Non Curat Lex | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...elements you invariably have to endure in these epic events from the California flicker factory the Broadway musical show produced on a shoestring, the leading lady stepping into and out of her big role, the in genus who was weaned on opera, the "name" orchestra leader who can't act. S. E. Sakall, the "show must go on" routine, and the rest of the standard attractions done in the standard manner. You must have seen it all a couple of times, at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...case of Reginald Arbutney, who gave the Longneck Theater its greatest evening in the first male "Joan." Unfortunately, Reginald was never allowed to follow his star for he inadvertently tied a corset string to one spur and thereby broke his neck mounting his white charger in the last act. May the Harvard Joan have more care. J. Thisby McManus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...members are David W. Self '48, who will act as art director, and Gordon W. Hedin '46, who will head the circulation drive scheduled to begin later in the term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Added to Board Editing The Advocate | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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